Maria Cohut

📢BBC reports 41% of Ukrainians in Britain lost job opportunities, while 26% faced tenancy issues due to visa uncertainty.

💬 “I can’t sleep at night… I don’t know where we will go.” – Mila, a mother denied a tenancy.

At Settled, we help Ukrainians secure their rights.

🔗 tinyurl.com/4kdscks3

LibGen database – advice for authors - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain We have become aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without their consent in LibGen, a pirated books database that Meta has used to …

We're aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without consent in LibGen, a pirated books database Meta has used to train AI

We've put together advice for those affected + you can also find out about our campaigning work 🔽

writersguild.org.uk/libgen-datab...

This a reminder that we have a call for papers for this year's Romancing the Gothic conference and we're interested in people working on

Short, Weird, Ghostly and Fantastic fiction

to mark an MR James anniversary!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...

Thank you, @othersidelitmag ❤️ I won't lie, it was really hard to try and summarise my relationship with writing in just a few words, but I did my best.

Why do *you* write? #writingbeyondborders #writer #migrantwriters

🪡 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. We would be delighted to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social this year. If any of these titles intrigue you and you would like to explore them further, please email t@asiancha.com to discuss. We look forward to hearing from you!

Thank you, I'll write something up and send it over.

Where do I send you a pitch? I have an idea.

Why We Write—To process, reflect & make sense of the world.

For Temitayo Olofinlua, writing was a way to express emotions. Now, her piece Cat-a-stro-phe! is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).

Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-...

#WhyWeWrite #RefugeeVoices

Excellent, I'll recommend it to my local/uni libraries! And add it to my reading list, of course!

Amazing! When does it come out?

If you have witnessed/experienced an immigration raid since July 2024, please get in touch via policy@migrantsrights.org.uk, 07534 488696 (Whatsapp/Signal) or buff.ly/0LChXnx (fill in our reporting tool)

Please get in touch by 28 March.

#Raids #ImmigrationRaids #Asylum #Migration

These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry?

@asiancha.bsky.social continues to accept submissions of poems for our ongoing series “Write to Power”.We welcome Asia-focused poems—original or newly translated into English. chajournal.blog/2021/09/28/write

The number of times that I've been told to be "grateful", "thankful" or "happy" about things that were my right/normal/basic/I'd worked double-hard for in a professional setting over the years...

The Psychology of Forced Gratitude Minorities in leadership—women, neurodivergent individuals, Indigenous peoples, immigrants—are often met with an unspoken expectation: You should be grateful just to be here.

Spot on, with the caveat that any attempt to challenge the narrative coming from the person being thus targeted usually results in repercussions. That is why privileged peers should speak out and advocate more but perhaps that's too much to hope for.
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dive...

Rebel Skies and Rebel Skies bookmark against different coloured origami paper.

GIVEAWAY ALERT! Attention all schools and libraries! For World Book Week I have five (yes 5!) signed copies of Rebel Skies to giveaway including bookmarks!

To enter, please like and comment.

Open to all schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Ends midnight 10th March

Just in case you missed it, here’s the CFP for the terrific CFP on Alice in Wonderland which, if it’s anything like the previous volume on Through the Looking Glass, will be amazing. Do get in touch.

For inquiries email: wonderlandbook2025@gmail.com

I may try... eventually 😅

@unbounders.bsky.social what happens if I solve this in 2030? Who will tell me if I got it right or not? 🥲

Found this today in the local @amnestyuk.bsky.social bookshop, and I had to get it. How many decades so you think it'll take me to get anywhere close to figuring it out? 🥲

#puzzle #mysterybook #cainsjawbone #experimentalwriting

Attitude of angry-tude How do you feel today? How do you really feel? To be honest, I’m not feeling that great. In fact, every day I feel myself getting angrier, more heartbroken, more disappointed. How could I not…

Resharing an older blog post because this is not the time for mindless gratitude. The world is on fire, it has been for a long time, and that fire is expanding. Be loud and lean into your anger. Do not self-silence, there are too many of those that would silence us anyway.

As the #measles outbreak continues, and has now unfortunately resulted in the death of a child, I see a lot of posts along the lines of: "I had measles as a child and I'm fine". Let me tell you a different version of that story:
🧵1/11 🧪 #medsky

Wow. This poem had me undone. 💔

"She spent hours by the roadside, pulling weeds, waiting
for a car that wouldn’t bring him back. I think she
wanted a new boy to bury, something fresh to grieve."

The Roma The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widel...

Today marks the anniversary of the abolition of Roma slavery on territories of present-day Romania. It’s an overlooked aspect of history.

I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...

@theguardian.com I see you've now amended it, which is good. Done so without acknowledging the initial error, which means you realise how embarrassing that was. But the fact that you made the error in the first place casts your editor's "expertise" on Eastern Europe in a really bad light.

Hey @theguardian.com, if you want to report on #Romania and #Moldova, you may also like to get the presidents right. Getting them mixed up on national media is a sign of, oh, I don't know, huge disrespect? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Word.

🚨BREAKING: From today people who entered the UK by irregular routes will "normally be refused" citizenship, regardless of how many years they've built their lives, raised families & called this country home.

A heartless attack on people seeking safety.
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All about Hong Kong! We'd love to publish reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social . If you'd like to read and review any of these titles, please send an email to me (t@asiancha.com) for more discussion. More information about these books: www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...

Absolutely, that is a fantastic anthology!

I've just finished reading all the poems & translations submitted by the original deadline (31 January 2025). I'd like to extend the submission window until 15 February. Perhaps those who are meant to see this (small) announcement will,& they will send us their work? www.facebook.com/100064077820...